On the Waterstones Blog

This afternoon at an event at the British Library, the shortlist for the Folio Prize for Fiction 2015 was announced. Now in it's second year, the prize aims to recognise the best offerings in literature and is open to all genres and all forms of fiction. See below the cut for the eight titles on this year's shortlist.

Today sees the official publication day of six brand new books from literacy charity Quick Reads.

Delve into our huge range of Fiction books, spanning the novels of Austen and Dickens, to the historical fiction of C.J. Sansom, via literary fiction by Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Will Self and Irvine Welsh. Not forgetting, of course, the classic fiction in the Penguin Classics and the Vintage Classics series.